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Vol. 2.
CEDAR BAPIDS, IOWA, FEBRUARY, 1886.
No. 11.
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A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests
of Penmanship.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PER YEAR.
A. N. PALMER,
Editor and Publisher.
A CHANGE.
The editor of the Western Penman
has reached the conclusion, after careful consideration, that it will be for his
future interest to locate permanently at
Cedar Bapids, Iowa.
We do not think it necessary to enumerate our various reasons for taking
this step, but we can and do assure our
readers'thai "advance" will still be the
watchword of the Western Penman,
and we can assure our readers that retrogression will not be among the features of the Penman in the future, but
on the contrary we expect to make improvements from time to time that will
render the Penman still more valuable
to penmen and students.
And in this connection it might be
well to refer to the fact that the first
number of the Western Penman was
published at Cedar Bapids, and that
the facilities for printing and sustaining a first-class penman's paper are as
good there as in any city on the globe.
If we are not mistaken in the character of our readers, our support will be
as liberal as it was in Chicago, just so
long as we do our part, and that we as
sure our readers will be as long as un
over-ruling providence permits us to enjoy good health.
OPINIONS.
We present herewith a number of
opinions from some of the leading penmen of America, relative to the best
movement to teach for practical writing, feeling confident that all our readers have a deep interest in knowing the
usually accepted theory in regard to
movement of our best teachers.
Another reason we have for presenting so many opinions, is that we have
sometimes been criticized for making
such a hobby of movement, and while
we become more thoroughly convinced
If the finger movement is brought in
upon the loop letters, better control of
those letters is secured, yet the main dependence must be placed upon the
muscular movement."
Morgan J. Goldsmith,
Prin. Goldsmith's Bus. University,
Atlanta, Ga., in Penman's Art Journal, Jan., 1886.
"You have all heard much about
movement. Penmen and authors tell
you about all sorts of movements—the
finger movement, the forearm movement, the whole-arm movement, the
muscular movement, the combined
J^J^^y^L^ma^
The above was photo-engraved from copy written by A. N. Palmer, and is given as
a specimen of easy muscular writing.
every day that we are right in attaching
so much importance to movement, we
try to be liberal toward all brother penmen, and we want our readers to know
just what opinions others hold relative
to this subject:
"If I can put a pupil into possession
of a movement that will enable him to
write the same hand he has always
written at an increase of double the
rate of speed, I consider that I have
contributed some good. Business
writing necessitates the use »f <tne muscular movement as the motive power.
movement, the compound movement,
the philosophical movement!
A great many of you have been practicing by yourselves without the personal aid of a teacher, and perhaps you
were never quite certain whether you
had the correct movement or not. I
do not think it necessary to compound
movement theories to such an extent as
to confound the learner. The only
movement that is practical for ordinary
purposes is the muscular."
E. K. Isaacs,
Penman N orthern Indiana Normal
School, Valparaiso, Ind., in Penman's Art Journal, December, 1885.

Vol. 2.
CEDAR BAPIDS, IOWA, FEBRUARY, 1886.
No. 11.
-THE-
ife
€dve4'n-
e'WWfreZ'W,
A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests
of Penmanship.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PER YEAR.
A. N. PALMER,
Editor and Publisher.
A CHANGE.
The editor of the Western Penman
has reached the conclusion, after careful consideration, that it will be for his
future interest to locate permanently at
Cedar Bapids, Iowa.
We do not think it necessary to enumerate our various reasons for taking
this step, but we can and do assure our
readers'thai "advance" will still be the
watchword of the Western Penman,
and we can assure our readers that retrogression will not be among the features of the Penman in the future, but
on the contrary we expect to make improvements from time to time that will
render the Penman still more valuable
to penmen and students.
And in this connection it might be
well to refer to the fact that the first
number of the Western Penman was
published at Cedar Bapids, and that
the facilities for printing and sustaining a first-class penman's paper are as
good there as in any city on the globe.
If we are not mistaken in the character of our readers, our support will be
as liberal as it was in Chicago, just so
long as we do our part, and that we as
sure our readers will be as long as un
over-ruling providence permits us to enjoy good health.
OPINIONS.
We present herewith a number of
opinions from some of the leading penmen of America, relative to the best
movement to teach for practical writing, feeling confident that all our readers have a deep interest in knowing the
usually accepted theory in regard to
movement of our best teachers.
Another reason we have for presenting so many opinions, is that we have
sometimes been criticized for making
such a hobby of movement, and while
we become more thoroughly convinced
If the finger movement is brought in
upon the loop letters, better control of
those letters is secured, yet the main dependence must be placed upon the
muscular movement."
Morgan J. Goldsmith,
Prin. Goldsmith's Bus. University,
Atlanta, Ga., in Penman's Art Journal, Jan., 1886.
"You have all heard much about
movement. Penmen and authors tell
you about all sorts of movements—the
finger movement, the forearm movement, the whole-arm movement, the
muscular movement, the combined
J^J^^y^L^ma^
The above was photo-engraved from copy written by A. N. Palmer, and is given as
a specimen of easy muscular writing.
every day that we are right in attaching
so much importance to movement, we
try to be liberal toward all brother penmen, and we want our readers to know
just what opinions others hold relative
to this subject:
"If I can put a pupil into possession
of a movement that will enable him to
write the same hand he has always
written at an increase of double the
rate of speed, I consider that I have
contributed some good. Business
writing necessitates the use »f